Sentences with phrase «quantum mechanical objects»

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The nineteenth - century predilection for picturable mechanical models has been thoroughly undermined by quantum physics which has shown that the atomic world is very unlike the world of familiar objects.

Normally, you only see quantum - mechanical jiggling when you look at objects the size of atoms and molecules, but we are moving into a domain where we see the centers of mass of these big mirrors jiggle quantum - mechanically.

If the quality factor of the resonator is high, the mechanical energy will dissipate at a very low rate, and therefore the resonator will be extremely accurate at measuring or sensing objects thus enabling these systems to become very sensitive mass and force sensors, as well as exciting quantum systems.

DURING HIS TIME IN GUANGZHOU, Leonhardt planned to work on the theory of Casimir forces, a strange pull or push between two closely spaced objects that arises because of quantum mechanical fluctuations in the vacuum of empty space.

In order to demonstrate the quantum mechanical nature of a massive object it has to be delocalized first.

To me, the middle ground «frontier» is how you maintain quantum mechanical behavior of an object as you bring it to a macroscopic scale.

Their respective theoretical and experimental studies investigate how microscopic objects lose their quantum - mechanical properties through interactions with the environment.